Deze auteur werd bekend door zijn memoires uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog, met een focus op gedurfde militaire operaties en strategisch denken. Zijn schrijfstijl wordt gewaardeerd om zijn spannende sfeer en gedetailleerde beschrijvingen die de lezer onderdompelen in de gebeurtenissen. Naast oorlogsherinneringen verkende hij ook fictie, waarbij hij thema's als moed en menselijk doorzettingsvermogen onder de loep nam. Zijn werken oogstten brede waardering en verstevigden zijn positie als een belangrijk verteller van avonturen.
A new collection from the great American poet in his 96th year. Yea, though he walks through a certain valley, Stanley Moss has written Always Alwaysland in his 94th, 95th, and 96th years, a book of songs, devotion, beautiful, painful, useful truths, some work songs, spirituals, grand opera, hymns, chants to God and no God. After all, heartbeat is just versification. He stands alone among American poets. (In one poem that is political, Christ comes back to Earth, is lynched for singing Amazing Grace outside a white church). Read this book, take a chance, change your life for the better for the hell of it.
The War didnt stop for Billy Moss after the Kreipe operation and it is his continuing story that Billy recounts in war of Shadows, the sequel to the bestselling Ill Met By Moonlight. He reflects movingly about what it means to fight and deal in death, how the turmoil of operations behind enemy lines in a foreign country are dependent on the goodwill of local inhabitants, and surprisingly, of the moments of high humour. It is at once exciting and reflective. The books is in three parts - the aftermath of the General Kreipe kidnap with continuing operations against the Germans in Crete; working with communist guerillas in Macedonia as the Germans retreated and Greece fell into Civil War; parachuted into Siam, he became part of the administration dealing with the aftermath of war in a very colourful environment. Billy is as effective with his pen as with his sword - the San Francisco Chronicle said of Ill met By Moonlight This amazing story is marvelously well told, in an exuberant, racing style that makes it impossible to lay the book aside once the first page is read
The book recounts a daring WWII operation involving the kidnapping of General Kreipe, as experienced by one of the officers, Moss. Serving in the Middle East alongside writer Patrick Leigh Fermor, Moss details their audacious plan and the challenges they faced. This firsthand account offers a unique perspective on the complexities of wartime missions and the camaraderie among soldiers, highlighting both the strategic elements and the personal bravery involved in this remarkable escapade.
Stanley Moss is ninety-three years old, still kicking sixty-two-yard field goals through the uprights of American poetry. His Abandoned Poems (Paul Valery wrote, "A poem is never finished, only abandoned") consists of 120 pages of new work written since his 2016 prize-winning book, Almost Complete Poems. The truth is Moss has a unique voice in the history of American poetry. He honors the English language. This book is full of invisible life-giving discoveries the reader has almost seen, and you might say Moss has discovered a new continent, a new planet or two--or simply it's fun. There is a final section, "Apocrypha and Long Abandoned Poems," which includes early misplaced work never published, and new versions of previously published poems. Bingo.
WINNER OF THE 2016 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Moss is oceanic: his poems rise, crest, crash, and rise again like waves. His voice echoes the boom of the Old Testament, the fluty trill of Greek mythology, and the gongs of Chinese rituals as he writes about love, nature, war, oppression, and the miracle of language. He addresses the God of the Jews, of the Christians, and of the Muslims with awe and familiarity, and chants to lesser gods of his own invention. In every surprising poem, every song to life, beautiful life, Moss, by turns giddy and sorrowful, expresses a sacred sensuality and an earthy holiness. Or putting it another way: here is a mind operating in open air, unimpeded by fashion or forced thematic focus, profoundly catholic in perspective, at once accessible and erudite, inevitably compelling. All of which is to recommend Moss's ability to participate in and control thoroughly these poems while resisting the impulse to center himself in them. This differentiates his beautiful work from much contemporary breast-beating. Moss is an artist who embraces the possibilities of exultation, appreciation, reconciliation, of extreme tenderness. As such he lays down a commitment to a common, worldly morality toward which all beings gravitate.
Not Yet by Stanley Moss is best described metaphorically: it is a freight train loaded with poetry that includes Poems on China (Stanley Moss taught English in China thirty years ago), a compartment of Two Raw Fish Poems from Japan, then there's an extra long boxcar, a lifetime of American Poems Seasoned with Chinese Experience. Finally, there's the club car, Not Yet, a section of new poems written June 20th 2020 - May 1st 2021. Not Yet includes a preface by Stanley Moss, an afterword by Fu Hao, visiting scholar of Chinese at Cambridge University. Much of the book will be translated by him into Chinese for the many millions of Chinese who read English poems.
